(The Center Square) – Only five months since inception and three this fiscal year topped the tax proceeds from sports wagering in May, the North Carolina State Lottery Commission reported Monday morning. Eight licensed sports books produced $11,740,881 for state coffers. Sports wagering since inception has averaged $347,921 per day. This fiscal year, it’s $316,410. […]

Florida Republican state Rep. Ileana Garcia, co-founder of Latinas for Trump, has called the Trump administration’s methods for arresting and deporting illegal immigrants “unacceptable and inhumane.”  Garcia’s criticism of the Trump administration comes amid reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are conducting raids outside immigration courts.  ​​“This is not what we voted for,” Garcia […]

The Trump administration sanctioned Los Chapitos, a faction of the Mexico-based Sinaloa Cartel involved in the illegal production and trafficking of fentanyl into the United States and connected to gunmen who murdered a Marine veteran in Mexico last year. On Monday afternoon, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on a regional […]

PARSIPPANY, New Jersey — In an open six-way primary race for governor, New Jersey Democrats are focused on pushing back on their common enemy: President Donald Trump. From Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) using artificial intelligence to depict himself physically taking on Trump, to Newark Mayor Ras Baraka suing the president’s pick to be U.S. attorney […]